· Private foundation
The Mailman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $505k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE | $250,000 |
| STONE BARNS CENTER | $95,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $60,000 |
| CITY HARVEST INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE INC | $50,000 |
| HUDSON INSTITUTE - CENTER FOR AMERICAN CULTURE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS | $50,000 |
| MIAMI NEW DRAMA | $50,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $50,000 |
| THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $35,000 |
| BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC DBA MIAMI WATERKEEPER | $30,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $25,000 |
| MIAMI CHILDRENS CHORUS INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
51 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NCNew Civil Liberties Alliance5× · 2019–2024 · $525k · revenue +104%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $195k · revenue +31%
CITY HARVEST INC6× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +52%
Funded once
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +83%- FDFLORIDA DISASTER FUNDone grant, 2022 · $100k
- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNIgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rx Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Eye Cancer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds New Civil Liberties Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI NEW DRAMA ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds RX ART INC ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds ARCO COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Joshua Mailman Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Ford Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Mailman Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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